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What is Prairie Moves?

Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News.

If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts or any of our coverage, please contact danny@siliconprairienews.com.

Career Moves

• Brian Rupert, formerly of 44Interactive (Sioux Fall, S.D.), joined Blend Interactive (Sioux Falls, S.D.) as Blend's one-person Iowa City branch where he'll handle design and front-end development
• Andrew Tople joined Blend Interactive (Sioux Falls, S.D.) as a .Net developer

Product/Business Development

• LiveOn (Kansas City) announced LiveOn Cares, an initiative to help people facing terminal illness or debilitating disease capture their lives on LiveOn - LiveOn blog and Press Release
• DocLanding (Omaha) announced a developer site - doclanding.com/developer

Mentions

• Dwolla (Des Moines) - Mashable: "6 Startups to Watch in 2012"
• Charise Flynn of Dwolla (Des Moines) - Iowa State Daily: "Dwolla COO lauded as company grows"
• Shoot A Brew: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: "Products for a Better You Preview"
• T8 Webware (Cedar Falls, Iowa) - American Banker: "12 Big Ideas for 2012"
• AgLocal (Kansas City and San Francisco-based) - Fast Company's Co-Exist: "Power To The Meat Lover: AgLocal Connects Local Animal Farms With Restaurants, Grocery Stores"
• Hurrdatt (Lincoln) - Lincoln Journal Star: "Former Huskers tweet through Hurrdat"
• SkyVu Entertainment (Omaha) - The Mulberry Lane Show: "Interview with Battle Bears creator Ben Vu"
• Drone Journalism Lab at University of Nebraska-Lincoln: "Professor finds journalistic potential in drones"

Blogged

• OneLouder (Kansas City): "Mission 2012"
• Brent Beshore, guest author in the Columbia Daily Tribune: "CoMo startups have resources readily available"
• Cognovant (Kansas City): "Connecting Healthcare's Last Mile"
• StartupCity Des Moines: "Meet the Mentor: Jason Lacava"
• Uses This - Silicon Prairie Edition: "Josh Cramer"
• James Eliason: "Twitter: 2012"
• Omahype: "Omahype's new features"

Misc.

• Internet Solver (Des Moines) acquired Advanced Network Technologies (Des Moines and Omaha) - Internet Solver blog and Des Moines Register
• BarCamp Cedar Valley registration went live - tikly.co
• Des Moines Business Record: "2012 in Preview: Technology"
• Portfolio.com: "Who Should Lead the Kauffman Foundation?"
• Business380: "Iowa’s universities help pave the way for tech transfer"